Thesaurus / garroted
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How to use garroted in a sentence
Before he was garroted, Atahualpa begged that his remains might be preserved at Quito with those of his mother's people.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYThe chevalier was thus overpowered, garroted and captured in less time than it has taken to write these words.
A ROMANCE OF THE WEST INDIESEUGNE SUEThis dissatisfied the people who tore him from the spiritual authorities, garroted and burnt him.
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN; VOL. 4HENRY CHARLES LEAHollister jumped for his wrist and at the same time Mike flung himself across the bar and garroted him.
THE FIGHTING EDGEWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEBut the religious asserted that they would not obey, and that, if they were garroted by the soldiers, they would be martyrs.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XXV, 1635-36VARIOUSThe prior said that, if the religious were garroted, his Holiness would publish them as martyrs.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XXV, 1635-36VARIOUSHe acted as a guide to the force sent in pursuit, and every pirate was captured and afterwards "garroted."
THE NARRATIVE OF A BLOCKADE-RUNNERJOHN WILKINSONMost of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life.
THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVEG. A. HENTYArt, now in its very birth in his heart and life, was to be garroted.
THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKEROur friend Blocque is garroted, and robbed of his 'honest earnings,' at one fell swoop by a footpad!
MOHUN, OR, THE LAST DAYS OF LEE AND HIS PALADINSJOHN ESTEN COOKEWORDS RELATED TO GARROTED
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